ACROSS

1 Picture Clue 7 Major suit must not be shown to be a Spanish ‘plonker’! (5) 8 Picture Clue 11 Dark time — said to be of the realm? (5) 13 Spoke lines in raid I messed up (5) 14 Picture Clue 16 Pouches somehow lose us time (5) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

2 New, if one was taken as a prefix (3) 3 Picture Clue 4 Ball park having a male swarm (4) 5 Picture Clue 6 Picture Clue 9 Picture Clue 10 Scratched out from sleek editions (4) 12 Sung about the antelopes . . . (4) 15 Fatal consequences of the powder (4) 17 Wonderful sounding propeller! (3) Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1 Love is blind. 5 Vaned. 7 Incas. 9 Tracker. 11 Nee. 12 Pea. 13 Prattle. 16 Indie. 17 Basso. 18 Trunk routes. DOWN: 1 Love in a mist. 2 India. 3 Brisk. 4 Disc harrows. 6 Notepad. 8 Carpets. 10 Cat. 14 Aleck. 15 Taboo.